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Fabliau
Fabliau Fa`bli`au", n.; pl. Fabliaux (-[-o]"). [F., fr. OF. fablel, dim. of fable a fable.] (Fr. Lit.) One of the metrical tales of the Trouv[`e]res, or early poets of the north of France.

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- A fabliau (French pronunciation: [fabljo]; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs and clerics in France between c. 1150...
- "Fabliau of Florida" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Fabliau of Florida  Barque of phosphor  On the palmy beach,  Move...
- One question that splits critics is whether the Merchant's tale is a fabliau.[citation needed] Typically a description for a tale of carnal lust and...
- century. Boccaccio could have possibly also taken the tale from a French fabliau, "L'Evesque qui benit sa maitresse" ("The bishop who blesses his mistress")...
- des structures narratives du fabliau a la nouvelle". in Gabriel Bianciotto, Michel Salvat. Épopée animale, fable, fabliau. Publication Univ Rouen Havre...
- Ysengrimus is a Latin fabliau and mock epic, containing a series of anthropomorphic fables thought to have been written in 1148 or 1149 CE by the poet...
- tale that mocks the Miller's profession. The tale is based on a po****r fabliau (also the source of the Sixth Story of the Ninth Day of The Decameron)...
- television series Premise Types of fiction with multiple endings Form Drama Fabliau Flash fiction Folklore Fable Fairy tale Legend Myth Tall tale Gamebook...
- **** speak" (French: "Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons") is a French fabliau. Seven versions of it remain, including one in MS Harley 2253 (a m****cript...
- Elegiac comedy was a genre of medieval Latin literature—or drama—represented by about twenty texts written in the 12th and 13th centuries in the liberal...